Key Features and Tasks Performed With the J2EE agentadmin Program

The agentadmin program is a utility used to perform
a variety of tasks from required tasks, such as installation to optional tasks,
such as displaying version information. This section summarizes the tasks
that can be performed with the agentadmin program. Many
of the tasks performed with this program are related to installation or uninstallation.
For detailed information about the options available with this program, see Role of the agentadmin Program in a J2EE Agent for Policy Agent 2.2.

In this section, the options are listed for your quick review to help
you get a sense of how the agentadmin program fits in with
the other methods of managing J2EE agents, which are all discussed in this
chapter.

The location of the agentadmin program is as follows:

PolicyAgent-base/bin

The following table lists options that can be used with the agentadmin command and gives a brief description of the specific task performed
with each option.

Note –

In this section, the options described are the agentadmin program
options that apply to all J2EE agents. Options that only apply to specific
J2EE agents are relatively uncommon and are described where necessary within
the corresponding J2EE agent guide.

Table 5–1 The agentadmin Program:
Supported Options

Option

Task Performed

--install

Installs a new agent instance

--uninstall

Uninstalls an existing Agent instance

--listAgents

Displays details of all the configured agents

--agentInfo

Displays details of the agent corresponding to the specified agent IDs